PQ 2019: An A+ B-Movie
I didn’t know what to expect from the Telekinetic Assault Group. The name was aggressive and the...
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PQ 2019: Paradise City
Today’s Prague Quadrennial adventures took me further away from the Exhibition Grounds than any...
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PQ 2019: A Dove is a Pigeon
One of my guiding principles in life is that the list of things I find beautiful should always be...
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PQ 2019: The Golden Triga
“Comrades,” said the woman in a loose zebra print dress and bright red lipstick, “this is not a...
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PQ 2019: The Nation Unto Itself
When a work of art has the word “nation” in its title, it invites you to look for the “essential”...
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PQ 2019: A Taboo Collection From Budapest
This week, the New York Times posted an ad for a new fashion correspondent. The job ad reads, in...
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PQ 2019: Chaos and Kindness
The headquarters of the PQ is the Exhibition Grounds, but that’s not its boundaries. Between the...
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PQ 2019: A New Reality
The fourteenth installment of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) kicked...
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Retro Productions’ “Mary, Mary”
The makeover story arc is a time-honored Hollywood tradition. Audrey Hepburn made several (Funny...
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Prague Quadrennial 2019: Imagination, Transformation, Memory
This summer, a wonderful artistic tradition will return to the city of Prague, as the Czech...
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Susan Stein’s “Etty”
In 1942, responding to the announcement that people of Japanese ancestry on the American west...
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Duchampian Theater: “Paul Swan is Dead and Gone”
Let Paul Swan seduce you. Why wouldn’t you? He is, after all, the most beautiful man in the world....
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Necromancers of the Public Domain: Art Both Free and Liberating
In 1919, following the devastation of the First World War, a movement arose to aid in the...
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“Norma Jeane Baker Of Troy” At The Shed
If gender, as we’re often told, is a construct, then some women are skyscrapers. These are the...
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and everybody goes “Awww!”: The Mad Ones’ “Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie”
How do I love Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie? Let me count the ways. Extraordinary attention to detail,...
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David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”
You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...
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“El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba” At Harlem Stage
Creating riveting theater out of the problem of a bureaucratic oversight is no easy feat. Luckily...
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Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live The Queen
Is Sasha Velour a drag queen? It’s debatable. She’s certainly a drag royalty, having won the ninth...
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Goof Troupe: Little Lord’s “Skinnamarink”
Sport is sometimes defined as a task with arbitrary but necessary constraints. Education is never...
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Yngvild Aspeli’s “Ashes”: Puppets That Haunt And Kindle
When does desire give way to fixation, compulsion, addiction? In Yngvild Aspeli’s exquisite show...
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